As Water Rat noted in The Wind in the Willows, “There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” If you want to know how to build a boat, MOTHER’s ...

[Rinoa Super-Genius] shows us in a video how to build a crude motorized barrel boat using only a few parts, including pontoons for extra buoyancy and stabilisation. Building a barrel boat is simple.

If you’ve ever daydreamed about building a boat of your own, MOTHER EARTH NEWS has written boat-building articles that can help make that dream a reality. In these pages you can find articles on how ...

If you have enviously eyed the packable but expensive Alpacka packrafts made in Alaska but just couldn’t commit to the $600-$2,500 price tag, there’s good news. A 37-year-old British Columbia engineer ...

Blake Hosli isn’t in the business of building boats — and certainly not wooden boats. In fact, he isn’t in the marine industry at all. He’s an electrical engineer. But when Hosli joins a group of old ...

Warren Clancy saw potential when he came across a catamaran lying abandoned in the middle of mangroves covered in vines, with a tree growing through the middle. "I looked at the hulls and just fell in ...